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What Obama’s Ferguson sermon left out by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2014 In his 967-word statement to the nation about the Ferguson grand jury decision on Tuesday night, President Obama devoted precisely one sentence to the risks and sacrifices police officers make to keep the peace. One. Obama delivered a tepid, obligatory acknowledgement that […]

Whaddya know. Academia did something right and honorable for once. Denied: The University of Illinois on Thursday denied 1960s radical William Ayers emeritus faculty status after trustees Chairman Christopher Kennedy noted Ayers dedicated a book to, among others, the man who killed Kennedy’s father, Robert F. Kennedy. All nine voting trustees either opposed granting Ayers, […]

Nope, not Bill Ayers. Meet Karl Armstrong. Via the Wisconsin State Journal (hat tip-reader Gregor): The bombing of Sterling Hall on the UW-Madison campus by anti-war radicals in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, 1970 has a peculiar hold on Madison even 40 years later, in part because of the many lives that were […]

President Obama with Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Robert Gibbs (via White House Flickr stream) Earlier this week, I spotlighted White House interim communications director and chief Fox-basher Anita Dunn’s career-long commitment to flacking for one of the Beltway’s most entrenched and crooked creatures, Tom Daschle. I also noted that Dunn is married […]

My column takes another swing at all the president’s radical education men. For more background on Commie Michael Klonsky, see Andrew McCarthy’s report from last October here. I mentioned some of the activists in the White House Teaching Fellowship program here. Don’t forget your Hall Pass on That. The guys at The Nose on Your […]

Well, well, well. The White House has re-written its activist talking points for teachers/administrators disseminated by the US Department of Education and removed the language about “helping the president.” Whitewashing: It’s the Obama way. What they can’t whitewash is the radicalism of many of the White House Teaching Fellows responsible for drafting the material — […]

Andrew Marcus at Founding Bloggers points out that federal slush fund money is going to Barack Obama’s old pals at the Woods Fund in Chicago: Illinois is receiving copious amounts of federal tax payer dollars to “boost awareness” for the upcoming census. How are they planning on boosting awareness? By handing out millions of dollars […]

I thought this would be a useful refresher as President Obama’s September 8 junior lobbyist recruitment speech approaches. It’s his Chicago pal Bill Ayers’ 2006 speech at the World Economic Forum in Caracas, Venezuela. You can separate Obama from radical Ayers’ neighborhood. But you can’t separate Ayers’ radicalism from Obama. President Hugo Chavez, Vice-President Vicente […]